The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Sodium batteries may have just crossed a critical threshold, moving into high-voltage territory and opening a realistic path ...

In November 2023, the UK became the first country in the world to authorise a Crispr gene-editing therapy.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommitted to a goal from the first Trump administration to end animal ...

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers ...

When it was announced in 2023 that the world’s first Crispr-based gene-editing therapy had been approved in the UK there was ...

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex ...

Saudi Basic Industries (Sabic) has sold its petrochemical plants in Europe and its thermoplastics business in Europe and the ...

However, the number of UK participants involved in Horizon 2020 research proposals declined in every subsequent year from ...

A rare copper nanocluster has been synthesised that behaves as a ‘superatom’. The Chinese team hopes it will unlock copper’s ...

A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?

A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...